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Do you not remember my taking you one day to the shore at Harvie to see the fishermen carried to their boats upon their wives' backs, that they might start dry on their journey?" "No," he had to reply. "I remember the women carrying the men through the water to the boats, but I thought it was my father who I mean " "I know whom you mean," I said.
Gavin thought that this was the tragedy of his mother's life, and the most memorable event of his own childhood. But it was neither. When Margaret, even after she came to Thrums, thought of Harvie, it was not at Adam's death she shuddered, but at the recollection of me. It would ill become me to take a late revenge on Adam Dishart now by saying what is not true of him.
It was the 7th of September, and all the week most of the women in Harvie had been setting off at dawn to the harvest fields and straggling home at nights, merry and with yellow corn in their hair. I had sat on in the school-house that day after my pupils were gone.
I once asked a lawyer one question, and before he could, or would, answer it, sir, he asked me fifty, and then his answer was rot beg pardon, sir unsatisfactory. But what I mean is just this, sir. With all due deference to Mr. Harvie, we don't want outsiders asking questions. My master himself would have been against it, and I'm hoping you will understand why before very long, sir." Alan sat up.
And with that the clock, having performed its duty, though so long before its time, disintegrated, the works falling piecemeal into the green fluid, there forming a melancholy little heap of submerged wreckage. No one seemed to know what to say, until Mr. Harvie came to the rescue. He advanced and congratulated Marjorie. "And you, too, Miss Lancaster," he said kindly.
I did not blame her then, nor do I blame her now, nor shall anyone who blames her ever be called friend by me; but it was bitter to look at the white manse among the trees and know that I must never enter it. For Margaret's sake I had to keep aloof, yet this new trial came upon me like our parting at Harvie.
Next moment there fell a frantic beating on the door. Marjorie darted from her refuge, thrust home the key and turned it. Monsieur Guidet almost fell in, crying "Quick! Look after Mr. Caw! He was hurt on the stair!" As he spoke, Lancaster, Doris, Mr. Harvie and the doctor appeared from the passage. "Doctor, will you go to Caw?" said Alan rapidly. "He's hurt downstairs."
During those seventeen years I lost knowledge of them as completely as Margaret had lost knowledge of me. On hearing of Adam's death I went back to Harvie to try to trace her, but she had feared this, and so told no one where she was going. According to Margaret, Gavin's genius showed itself while he was still a child. He was born with a brow whose nobility impressed her from the first.
"I am to trust them also," Alan replied, with a smile, "as well as Mr. Harvie." "Thank you, sir. As you have seen, sir, I have ventured to trust Dr. Handyside and Miss Handyside a bit of my own; in fact I was forced into so doing; and, though I had my master's word for it, if necessary, I am glad to hear it again from you, sir. As for Mr.
Still, as I have said, in any new difficulty I am at your service. I liked your uncle, Mr. Craig. I once mentioned a sad case of unmerited poverty to him, and his generosity astonished, nay, shamed me. You have a good man's place to fill." Mr. Harvie stayed to lunch Caw performed wonders in the circumstances and caught the two o'clock steamer. As soon as he was gone, Alan opened the envelope.
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